Moruca villages use self-help to build COVID-19 isolation, quarantine facilities

The Waramuri quarantine facility

Several buildings designated for the isolation and quarantine of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients have been completed and another is under construction as villagers have moved to prepare the Moruca sub-district to treat cases.

Work has been done at Kwebanna and Waramuri and at the Bimichi Airstrip.

According to Dr Derron Moonsammy, head doctor stationed at the Kumaka District Hospital, some assistance was received from the region with some of the materials, but most of the work was done through self-help.